Boat vs Plane on The Broads
 

Saw this on Instagram. The plane is flying slow so definitely not a race….hope the pilot and driver had planned this in advance and the plane wasn’t trying to land. Maybe the plane is looking for the MP???

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cx6na...RlODBiNWFlZA==

I was in envy of the large numerals displayed on their depth finder until I realized that was not depth being displayed, it was MPH.

Wow!

really stupid
 

driving a boat over 100 mph practically beneath a seaplane that's about 50-100 ft off the water is stupid and dangerous. and them making a video of it? wow, indeed.

This was really on this lake? I saw a boat being taken out of the water by the Libby Museum last evening with those colors. I wonder?

I don't think the plane was landing, I think the boat display was in kph, which would mean he was going about 65 mph. The plane wasn't directly over him. The plane's flaps were down, which means he could fly pretty slow if he wanted to. Overall a pretty cool video, except for the boat exceeding the speed limit if it was Winnipesauke.

I agree. And since both vehicles were not inexpensive, they probably run in the same social circles and this was well planned. It's a cool Video. Safe/unsafe, flip a coin... If you have a boat that can do that speed, which I have had... You stretch her legs once and a while, WHY? Just because you can..

I see the driver in the video is a lefty. Think I read somewhere that manufacturers are making more left hand drives these days.

Yes that boat is resides on the lake, I believe in Winter Harbor. They are always doing speed runs in the late evening on calm days around the broads and Rattlesnake.

Ok, thank you for the response. So it probably was the boat I saw. The colors are quite distinct.

What...Me Worry?
 

1) I stopped using that ramp in recent decades, as traffic had little safety concern for boaters using that ramp. Have changes been made?

If any place needed a traffic light, this was it! :rolleye2:

2) Doesn't EVERYBODY navigate The Broads at 111 kph with one hand on the wheel?

3) The video is directly north of Winter Harbor, showing Rattlesnake Island and Diamond Island in the background. (Site of the Big Lake's most recent--and most consequential--fatality).

This tunnel-hull speedster doesn't understand Irony!

Maybe that speed is registering in knots. :confused:

That floatplane pilot has probably never viewed the many YouTube "compliations" that show tunnel-hull ocean-racers flipping two-to-three times its length into the air before crashing upside-down with the usual disastrous consequences. :eek2:

It doesn't take much to upset a "surface-effect" speedboat, as we've seen these ocean-racers, "Can't see kayaks"!

:rolleye2:

APS, I thought that was Rattlesnake but you can't believe anything you see anymore.

I've been using the Libby ramp for about 12 years; only twice a year though, (in and out). I don't think the traffic situation has changed going back even longer than that. It definitely can be tricky, especially when museum visitors are parked there. Then you have to come from the south and pull up in front of the adjacent property before backing in. If you're good you can do it in one take without going into the road otherwise you need to straighten out by driving into the road and then backing down. I don't trailer a lot so I'm ~50/50. I try to launch on a weekday with Monday being an exception because of potential barge work.

Rattlesnake And Diamond: Remnants of Belknap County's Extinct Volcano...
 

Maybe pre-arranged photo opportunity? A video taken from the slowing plane would dramatize the boat outrunning the aircraft. Notice the flaps are down? That increases lift, which works to shorten takeoffs and landings.

Don't believe it?

.https://youtube.com/shorts/hUiZIyndR...hRQd2fvdTOWVQG. :eek2:

Definitely, the floatplane is legally there.

Illegally, the ocean-racer is flouting the NHMPs, while racing into the Middle Ground Shoal markers. :eek:

106 mph on the water is VERY fast.

I agree with other posters that the actual speed was much less.

Yee-Haw...!
 

'Found this "Shorts" video showing a fast bass-boat below an airplane.

Does the audio "speak volumes?" :rolleye2:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Fsyaeu0yv...ZGXHNZwYPRyl1p